Mother Reality
One of the things you shouldn’t believe is the idea that the natural world is more or less inert.
Keep in mind that Jesus spoke to natural forces and demons alike, and they obeyed Him. He addressed them as if they were alive, sentient and possessed a will. Even Satan knew that Jesus could command stones to become bread, something that is supposed to be inert. Moses was supposed to demand a stone to produce water, but he did it wrong.
My point is not so much the miracles themselves, as it is the underlying worldview that makes miracles possible. You really need to think of all Creation as in some fashion alive, sentient and willful. It’s not a question of asserting that Creation is that way, only that we are obliged to act as if it were so. Why it works is a silly question; that it works is simply a very critical part of what Scripture teaches.
Indeed, we should act as if reality itself were a person, perhaps like our mother. How would you expect a real person to act, if this was the same real person (mom) billions of humans encountered every day? Do you suppose we would all be able to report that Mother Reality has shown us all some common character traits, such that we could recognize we are talking about the same person? And yet, a real mom would treat each of her children with a measure of individuality, because she knows all of us personally.
Should we be surprised that no two of us have exactly the same precise image of Reality?
It would be natural that some people never get to know Mother Reality that well in the first place. But those of us who keep our conscious awareness in our hearts will always know people in a far different way than others would. We are naturally closer to Mother Reality than people whose relationship with her is not that good. After all, she’s part of God’s household along with the rest of us, so we need to pay more attention to her as a person. Get to know her and spend time giving her your focus.
And don’t expect her to be the exact same person as to everyone else. You and I would quite naturally end up with a different impression of any other person we encountered, so Reality is no different. Don’t listen when other people tell you they know reality better than you, or that your view of reality is flawed, as if they were some kind of inspector. You can afford to brush that person off, because they don’t understand how reality works.
Do you recall that business of the heart’s own sensory field? The scientists who studied it detected that this field interacts with living things for sure, and got the impression some inanimate objects also got a measurable reaction. If you keep your conscious focus in your heart, you should be able to hear natural objects speaking to you. Not so much a content, but communicating things that can’t be put into words. All Creation witnesses of the Father’s sovereign power, and the Son’s glory. If you stop and focus on your heart, you should be able to hear that in your heart.
As with most things God does, including miracles, there is always a plausible deniability. You should realize that the heart sounds are detected in the same part of the psyche where the imagination resides. It takes practice to discern between what’s functionally real and what is just your wishful thinking. But once you begin to sense that communion with the natural world, you’ll never want to let it go. It quickly becomes the only way you can really feel like yourself. It’s how God speaks to us; it’s always a whisper that you could choose to ignore. It doesn’t register very well in the intellect.
Again, this is not a question of what reality is, but how Scripture suggests we operate. It’s an operational assumption, because moral truth doesn’t easily register in the mind. This requires the conscious ego to compel the mind to bow the knee. The intellect will never be satisfied with the answers the heart has, so in that sense, we can never really “know” factually what reality is, and what is reality.
